Unlike other contestants, I am participating as an enabler in terms of using Microsoft in my day-to-day life and helping others get maximum by use of technology. This love affair began 18 years back in 1996 when I used Windows 95 machine to learn to program in BASIC and TURTLE and also used computer to play PARATRUP, WOLF3D and ALADDIN when our kind computer instructor, Mr A Sen, allowed us. I still cherish those first encounters with a PC and chuckle at the misconceptions I used to have. I secretly believed that the instructors asked us to keep our shoes outside the computer room so that there is no dust inside and so that computers don’t catch a virus! As time passed by, I got to learn computers in school and found it very interesting and scoring too. So, I continued with computers in Higher Secondary and Engineering. This April when I was faced with a choice between IT and other domains as Insurance, FMCG, etc., I had no hesitation in choosing IT as it has been my...